Why Reliable Opioid Death Data is Impossible
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I stopped reading there.
They never called covid19 death statistics unreliable, even though they institutionally bribed hospitals to qualify all co-morbidities with covid as a covid death.
So, I seriously doubt you can trust any health/medical statistics. It all really just depends on how the data itself is processed in, NOT how it gets analyzed after the fact.
in all honesty, how can you REALLY use data with this? certain things are just a hard reality.
yeah, i know the data geeks will beg to differ but something like this you just have to use your own eyes and ears —
how many people do you know / know of who have died from OD’s
my buddy DD’s brother died of an opiod OD back in 90’s
my school buddy T died of a heroin OD — had wife /3 kids / white affluent job
week later my old neighbor G died of an OD. was to be expected.
my buddy F has a daughter who has 4 kids of her own, who will always need a watchful eye over her to prevent a relapse (so i’ve been told)
my buddy C had a half brother that he met once in his life only the week before. a week later that half brother OD’d his first time shooting dope.
my old buddy from camp, J died “suddenly” during a solo visit back to his old state. he took a detour while in town and went to the hood. left 2 kids behind
another camp buddy died “suddenly” while his girlfriend/daughter were out-of-town.
i can think of a few others i’m sure
Thats the only data you need. Now put that in your pivot table!
It’s not a proper statistic until it says what I want it to say.